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24 of the Best Mervyn Peake Quotes

Almost 49 years after his death, Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) is still inspiring new art today. Dark Arteries is a ballet score premiering in London this year. The literary inspiration comes from a line in Mervyn Peake’s coal mining poem ‘Rhondda Valley’ with its three individual movement titles taken from ‘GB84’ by David Peace. – 4barsrest

So, looking for inspiration? Delve into these quotes from the man himself…

The sun sank with a sob and darkness waded in from all horizons so that the sky contracted and there was no more light left in the world, when, at this very moment of annihilation, the moon, as though she had been waiting for her cue, sailed up the night.

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

What is Time… That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship! – Found on AZ Quotes

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow. – Found on Quote Fancy